Preliminary communication

Machines for cane shoots disposal in vineyards

Stjepan Sito ; Agronomski fakultet u Zagrebu, Zavod za mehanizaciju poljoprivrede
Stjepan Ivančan ; Agronomski fakultet u Zagrebu, Zavod za mehanizaciju poljoprivrede
Nikola Bilandžija ; Agronomski fakultet u Zagrebu, Zavod za mehanizaciju poljoprivrede
Ana Mucalo ; Agronomski fakultet u Zagrebu, Zavod za mehanizaciju poljoprivrede

Abstract

The paper presents modern machines and tools (shears) for continuous and discontinuous cane pruning in a vineyard. Disposal of pruned cane represented a hard work which used to take months up to recently and the collected mass was burned nearby the vineyards. Therefore, except for pruning machines, a possibility has appeared to use pruned and chopped mass to make briquettes as highly valuable energy fuel for heating housing and production- buildings (hothouses and polythene greenhouses). The research has confirmed that about 2.5 kg of briquettes can replace 1 l of significantly more expensive heating oil in terms of energy.

Keywords

pruning machines; pruned cane; wood briquette

Hrčak ID:

163395

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/163395

Publication date:

26.2.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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